V Quotes
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“Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas. It's attractive because it's simple, it's direct, it's almost always available as an option. When you can't think of a good rebuttal for your opponent's argument, you can always punch them in the face.”
“Violence isn't a Democrat or Republican problem. It's an American problem, requiring an American solution.”
“Violence isn't only bombs and bullets, it can be speaking words that dehumanize and looking away when someone needs you to lean in and stand up alongside them to confront the racism, the intimidation, or the belittling.”
Source: Waging Peace: One Soldier's Story of Putting Love First
“Violence isn't the answer.”
Source: Let the Sky Fall
“Violence isn't waged only with guns, or war. Words can be violent, and so can the Erasure of wrongdoing.”
“Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.”
“Violence isn't the only answer, but it is the final answer.”
“Violence itself is retrogressive, the politically violent are primitive”
“Violence just hurts those who are already hurt...Instead of exposing the brutality of the oppressor, it justifies it.”
“Violence leads to madness, it fills you with crazy thoughts. You sleep it, eat it and shit it. You become a time bomb. They push you a bit more – you blow up. They beat you and you survive. You get strong and you blow again. So how long can a man live this way? I’ll tell you…until he dies, if need be. It becomes a way of life, but I don’t remember it, why? Simple…it’s painful; it’s empty and alone. Your cell becomes a hole in the earth, it sucks you in. You drown in your own bitterness, it’s not right to live this way.”
Source: Insanity: My Mad Life
“Violence may be a good focus to organize around, but we have to look at women's lives in our entirety.”
“Violence meant to seize and shore up power—a claim to sovereignty through the violence of the mob—is fundamentally American.”
Source: Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
“Violence multiplies violence.”
Source: A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings
“Violence must be inflicted once for all; people will then forget what it tastes like and so be less resentful. Benefits must be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.”
“Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms”
Source: Starship Troopers
“Violence needs a cause and a purpose. Attacking an unarmed fellow? – You’re a coward. Sacrificing the blood of the innocent to gods? – You’re a beast. Saying those sacrifices are different from us? – My foot, we are all human. However, when my family, my country, my people are threatened, it is no longer only about me. When that happens and one does not take arms and pierce the heart of their enemy, again, they are a coward.”
Source: Notes of Oisin: From an Irish Monk to a Skaldic Poet
“Violence needs to stop. All of us - men and women - need to speak up and teach our children that violence is never the solution. Together we can all make a difference. The best place to start is with yourself.”
“Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones.”
“Violence never really deals with the basic evil of the situation. Violence may murder the murderer, but it doesn’t murder murder. Violence may murder the liar, but it doesn’t murder lie; it doesn’t establish truth. Violence may even murder the dishonest man, but it doesn’t murder dishonesty. Violence may go to the point of murdering the hater, but it doesn’t murder hate. It may increase hate. It is always a descending spiral leading nowhere. This is the ultimate weakness of violence: It multiplies evil and violence in the universe. It doesn’t solve any problems.”
“Violence never settles anything right: apart from injuring your own soul, it injures the best cause. It lingers on long after the object of hate has disappeared from the scene to plague the lives of those who have employed it against their foes.”
“Violence never settles anything should be debated by the ghosts of Hitler and Stalin, with the city fathers of Carthage as referees.”
“Violence of the tongue is very real- sharper than any knife.”
“Violence often brings about momentary results.”
Source: I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr
“Violence often comes from fear of the unknown, fear of the uncontrollable.”
“Violence only attacks the body, but it is non-violence that has the power to influence the soul and reshape it towards a peaceful future.”
Source: The Film Testament
“Violence or the threat of violence [must] never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of the university community. Once it does, the community, almost by definition, ceases to be a university. It is for this reason that from time immemorial expulsion has been the primary instrument of university discipline.”
“Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.”
“Violence ravaged my life. I was a victim of hatred, and I have dedicated my life to reversing that hatred.”
“Violence recoils on the violent.”
“Violence represents the worst kind of conformism.”
“Violence should not always beget more violence.”
Source: All These Things I've Done
“Violence?"Skulduggery said. "Violence is never the answer, until it's the only answer.”
Source: The Dying of the Light
“Violence sometimes may have cleared away obstructions quickly, but it never has proved itself creative.”
Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century
“Violence stinks no matter which side of it you're on. But now and then there's nothing left to do but hit the other person over the head with a frying pan.”
“Violence stops thought. Hence its popularity as a pain-killer.”
“Violence takes on many forms, sadly violence is such an everyday part of our lives that we have mostly become oblivious to it. It goes on behind closed doors, far away from our vision. Screams that go unheard by the masses. Yet the butchered remains of miserable lives land with a sizzle on our dinner plates, and are rarely fully recognised for what they really are.”
Source: The Eden Fruitarian Guidebook
“Violence takes the edge of life off.
It is that lethal and scary.
Life doesn’t need it.
Life needs peace”
“Violence toward women isn't cultural; it's criminal.”
“Violence up close has a smell. Like copper blood and charcoal burning.”
“Violence was a slippery slope, lubricated by a lot of blood, if history had any lessons to teach.”
Source: Love Connection: Romance in the Land of the Rising Sun
“Violence was almost an aphrodisiac for me.”
“Violence was just as much about WHAT was happening as it was how it happened.”
“Violence was second nature to the psychopathic and ultra-violent Stephen Moyle, who was already a seasoned street fighter, after having half his face torn off in a street fight with three other men.”
Source: Psycho Steve
“Violence will only increase the cycle of violence.”
“Violence will prevail over violence, only when someone can prove to me that darkness can be dispelled by darkness”
“Violence within the context of policing has a sense of control and power to it, whether it is dominance, getting what you want, or acting out of emotion. At the same time, it is not ultimately satisfying and [you are] trapped in the cycle.”
“Violence won't solve a thing. It makes it more challenging to solve, though.”
“Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.”
“Violence wounds the body and it wounds the soul. Of the predator. Of the prey. Of the mourners. Of collective humanity. It diminishes us all.”
Source: Break No Bones: A Novel
“Violence, and evil, doesn't always come dressed in black, and it doesn't always look like Charles Manson. Nor does it always come to us as obvious and arrogant[...]. Often it comes to us with the simple plea to be reasonable.”